Developing Windows 8 Metro style applications that consume OData

We’re releasing a preview version of the client libraries for Windows 8 Metro-Style applications to give our users the ability to create applications that work on Windows 8 . This client library will work with servers that comply with the OData v1-v3 protocols. In the blog post below we will describe a sample application we built and is available for download using this client library.

Step Zero is to generate the client types for the Netflix OData Service using the DataSvcUtil.exe tool. We haven’t updated the “Add Service Reference” gesture in Visual Studio 2012 yet, so you’ll have to generate the client types manually . Here is how you generate the client proxy types for the Netflix OData Service

Open a command prompt as administrator and navigate to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30128